Eric Wainaina

Eric Wainaina is the General Manager, Africa for Conduit. Eric leads Conduit’s business development and expansion in the continent, helping businesses in Africa move their money across borders easier, faster and with lower fees. Before joining Conduit, Eric worked as a Director at The Kenyan Wall Street, the African distributor of financial data and news

Rob Mackay

Rob Mackay is the Investor Manager Lead at Mesh, where he focuses on making high-quality alternative assets more accessible and helping investors connect with innovative opportunities. With over two decades of experience in wealth management, global markets, and structured finance, including senior roles at Nedbank Private Wealth, Rob brings a deep understanding of how technology and

Tayyibah Suliman

Tayyibah is a seasoned legal practitioner with 15 years of experience, managing complex technology, media, telecommunications, data protection, mergers and acquisitions matters for clients across multiple jurisdictions. She has engaged extensively with legal regulatory authorities across Africa and provided strategic public policy, compliance and risk advice to clients with an emphasis on providing strategic and

Felix Macharia

Felix Macharia, CEO and co-founder at Kotani Pay, an on/offramp blockchain orchestration infrastructure. Felix has worked in a variety of roles in the African blockchain space since 2016 including as a researcher for the institute of Blockchain Studies, co-trustee of the African Digital Asset Framework (ADAF), and co-founder of proof of stake node validator EOS

Marius Reitz

Marius is the General Manager for Africa at Luno, a leading global cryptocurrency company with its head office in London. He joined Luno in 2016 and helped the company grow to a diverse team of 300 people across three continents. Marius wholeheartedly shares his company’s philosophy of upgrading the world to a better financial system.

Ciaran Adrian Ryan

Ciaran has written for most financial publications in SA. He spent time as an editor in California before returning to SA, and has been involved in several business start-ups, including a gold mining venture in Ghana. He is a long-standing writer for Moneyweb and is proud to have witnessed the phenomenal growth of Moneyweb Crypto

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Badi Sudhakaran

Badi Sudhakaran is a dynamic and visionary entrepreneur with a remarkable journey spanning over two decades in the technology and finance sectors. He is the Co-Founder of VALR.com, a crypto exchange that has positioned itself as the largest in South Africa in terms of trade volume. Badi’s multifaceted expertise, spanning blockchain technology, software engineering, product

Paul Mitchell

Paul is an independent consultant with well over 20 years of experience in advising financial services businesses on strategy and innovation. He has worked with the largest corporations and the smallest startups. In recent years, his focus has been on the disruption driven by blockchains and digital assets, and the impact they will have on